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Deborah Landau's poems make me feel alive. They are the city, the body, the evening drink transformed into pure essence. If you want to be returned to your senses and remember the pleasures of the world, this book is for you' Alex Dimitrov 'Landau's earthy, angsty poems - about sex and mortality and cosmic despair - are insistently quotable, and more fun than they have any right to be. One opens with a line Emily Dickinson might have written, ...

Previous collections won the 2019 Believer Book Award and the 2003 Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for PoetryRecipient of two starred reviews from Publishers Weekly A Spanish edition of The Uses of the Body, Los Usos Del Cuerpo, was published by Valparaiso Ediciones in 2017Op-eds published in Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Oprah Magazine, and moreRelevant in academic and literary circles as MFA director at NYU with direct connections to authors like ...

Deborah Landau's Soft Targets draws a bull's-eye on humanity's vulnerable flesh and corrupted world. In this ambitious lyric sequence, fear of annihilation expands beyond the self to an endangered planet where all inhabitants are "soft targets", as she views a world beset by political tumult, random violence, terror attacks and climate change.

This haunting lyrical sequence considers the body's vulnerability under the threat of terror and in the light of love.

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Landau creates "a poetry of vibrant physicality, open to joy and to failure."-Mark Doty

Deborah Landau's The Uses Of The Body creates illuminating landscapes of language, inviting a sensuous experience of beauty and betrayal.